Development of a Prioritized Anesthesiology Residency Critical Care Content Outline.

Background: Critical care education is an important, mandatory component of residency training in anesthesiology. Currently, there is no accepted national standardized curriculum, and a prioritized critical care content outline would be beneficial to the creation of a pragmatic standardized residency curriculum. The modified Delphi method is a recognized method for establishing consensus in medical education.

Consensus-Derived Recommended Skills for Transition to Residency Courses.

Purpose: Transition to residency (TTR) courses facilitate the medical student-residency transition and are an integral part of senior medical student training. The authors established a common set of skills for TTR courses, and an expected level of entrustment students should demonstrate in each skill on TTR course completion.

Method: A modified Delphi approach was used with 3 survey iterations between 2020 and 2022 to establish skills to be included in a TTR course.

Population Pharmacokinetics of Single Bolus Dose Fentanyl in Obese Children.

Background: Childhood obesity is a significant problem. Obesity may alter the pharmacokinetics (PKs) of medications. Fentanyl is commonly used for procedural sedation, but there is a paucity of bolus dose fentanyl PK data in obese children.

A descriptive study of screening and navigation on health-related social needs in a safety-net hospital emergency department.

Background: Health-related social needs (HRSN) have been associated with worse clinical outcomes, increased Emergency Department (ED) utilization and higher healthcare costs. The ED is uniquely positioned to bring HRSN screening to the bedside and develop effective interventions. We evaluated whether navigation services for high-risk patients led to the resolution of HRSN.

Decreasing Percentage of Infants With Very Low 5-Minute Apgar Scores at a Safety-Net Level III NICU.

Objectives: Low 5-minute Apgar scores predict mortality and may be associated with poor neurologic outcomes. Our percentage of infants with low 5-minute Apgar scores was higher than the national average (2.4%).